L'Oréal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes is the mascara buyers most often say doesn't smudge: 40 of 42 who mentioned smudging said it stays put on them. Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High is the strongest non-tubing pick, at 49 of 57.
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Share of buyers who stated an outcome for smudging. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's first-hand reports.
L'Oréal Paris
Best for easy removal
A tubing mascara with a separate base coat. Beyond staying put, the point buyers raise most is how easily it comes off with warm water (19% of reports).
Maybelline
Best for a drugstore budget
The most-discussed mascara on this page. Buyers who mention a downside talk about removal (7%) about as often as smudging.
Kiss Me Heroine Make
Best for holding a curl too
A Japanese waterproof formula with real grip. The flip side: 35% of reports say it's hard to take off, the highest removal complaint here.
Blinc
Best for a subtle, tubing finish
Most buyers say it stays put, but 8% find it too subtle, so it suits a natural look better than drama.
L'Oréal Paris
Loved for volume. It smudges for a noticeable minority: 8 of the people who mentioned smudging said it moved on them.
Thrive Causemetics
Best for easy removal
A tubing-style formula that buyers like for how cleanly it comes off (15%). Results on smudging are more mixed than its reputation suggests.
L'Oréal Paris
Best for length
Buyers pick it for long, separated lashes (13% mention length). Smudging comes up in 12% of reports.
We scanned 44,719 comments and found first-hand reports in 181 public threads on r/MakeupAddiction, r/Makeup, r/drugstoreMUA, r/beauty, r/Sephora and r/MakeUpAddictionUK, posted between Jan 2022 and Sep 2026.
A report counts only when the commenter says they used the product themselves. Recommendations repeated from someone else, questions and jokes are left out. One person counts once per product.
An AI model labels each report against a fixed list of points, and we review the labels before publishing. We publish counts and links to the threads, never the comments themselves.
In the threads we counted, L'Oréal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes: 40 of 42 buyers who talked about smudging said it stays put. Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High follows with 49 of 57.
Not automatically. L'Oréal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes tops the list, but other tubing formulas land mid-table: Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions at 21 of 29 and tarte Tartelette Tubing at 24 of 36. The non-tubing Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High beats both.
Too Faced Better Than Sex. Of 39 buyers who said whether it smudged, 28 said it did, the worst result among the mascaras we counted.
For most buyers, yes: 49 of 57 who mentioned smudging said it stays put on them.
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